Guzmania dissitiflora (André) L. B. Sm.

Guzmania dissitiflora (Andr6) L. B. Smith, Contr. Gray Herb. 104: 74. 1934.
Sodiroa dissitiflora Andri, Enum. Brom^l 5. 13 D 1888; Rev. Hort. 60: 565. 16 D 1888.
Stemless but usually stoloniferous, the flowering plant 4-9 dm. high; leaves rosulate, suberect, 3-9 dm. long; sheaths elliptic, distinct, dark-castaneous at base, the rest pale-green with fine brown longitudinal stripes, densely and finely lepidote; blades linear, acuminate, 7-12 mm. wide, obscurely punctulate-lepidote beneath; scape erect, 3-5 mm. in diameter, much shorter than the leaves, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, imbricate, the lower foliaceous, the upper elliptic, acute, bright-red, glabrous; inflorescence simple, very laxly 7-12-flowered, about equaling the leaves; axis nearly straight, slender, glabrous, sulcate; floral bracts like the upper scape-bracts, usually shorter than the sepals and closely enfolding them; flowers mostly spreading; pedicels slender, 5-8 mm. long; sepals up to 3 cm. long, subchartaceous, glabrous, connate into a slender tube for more than half their length, the free segments oblong, obtuse; petals white when dry; capsule slenderly cylindric, equaling the sepals.
Typb locality: Banks of the Rio Nembi, southwestern cordillera of Colombia, altitude 990 meters.
Distribution: Costa Rica; also in Colombia.

Guzmania dissitiflora is a species of flowering plant in the Bromeliaceae family. It is native to Ecuador, Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.